Nine S Club 7 songs that meant so much to us way back when

Okay, so we are SERIOUSLY excited about the return of S Club 7. The band meant, like, everything to us when we were kids.

Where would we have been without fancying Bradley, envying Jo’s voice and wanting Rachel’s clothes?

But, more importantly, the band provided us with songs that actually meant something to our lives. We take a fond look back at just how meaningful those chart-toppers were to us, back in Year 6…

1. Reach

Before any celebs were telling us to ‘follow our dreams’ and all that cheesy shebang, S Club 7 were telling us to ‘climb every mountain,’ ‘reach for the stars’ and ‘follow your heart’s desire’.

The band’s catchy, still-popular anthem gave us the strength to power through those tough Year 6 end of year exams knowing that if we just strove hard enough, we’d get there in the end.

2. Two In A Million

Back when we were truly in love with that first boy in our class, this song was the anthem that we sung to ourselves in our bedrooms, believing we were really the ‘two in a million’ that would definitely get married in the future and have a million kids.

The day we got to dance to this together at the school disco was truly the pinnacle of pre-puberty living. ‘If the world should stop, we’d still have each other’ indeed.

3. Never Had A Dream Come True

This slow number was the perfect ballad for those who weren’t quite there with their primary school relationship, but who definitely had a pretty big crush on the boy they once sat next to in the lunchroom.

Staring across the playground at our one true love, we sadly sung this song to ourselves and knew that no matter what, they’d ‘always be [our] baby’.

Also, the snowy video truly was the zenith of style back in Year 6, with S Club championing Ugg-style boots long before they became the ‘in’ thing.

In the days before we’d ever heard of Ibiza, Mykonos or Miami, this was the ultimate club anthem.

We danced to it like crazy in our bedrooms, in the playground, at the school end of year party.

We loved the Grease-style video – and let’s not even go into how many Rachel-style crop tops we had.

5. Have You Ever

Way back when we hadn’t experienced heartbreak for ourselves, S Club released this melancholy track and taught us what we could expect from love in the future.

‘Have you ever loved and lost somebody? Wished there was a chance to say I’m sorry?… Have you ever felt your heart was breaking? Looking down the road you should have taken?’

When we heard these lyrics, we deffo didn’t want to grow up and make these mistakes for ourselves.

6. Bring It All Back

We still don’t really know what these lyrics mean, but I’d eat my 90s hat if you can find one person who doesn’t remember every single word 15 years later.

This was S Club 7’s first single, which we rushed to Woolworth’s to buy straight away, and it made us love them instantly.

7. Don’t Stop Movin’

We obeyed the super seven and didn’t stop moving. At all. Ever.

Even now, when this classic comes on in a retro club, 90s night or hen party, we’re the first one to pull out those epic dance moves and mouth along to those robot first lines like we wrote them ourselves.

8. You’re My Number One

This wasn’t our absolute favourite S Club 7 song, but it was still a hit on our iPods (LOL JK we had Walkmans), we still saved up all our pocket money to buy the CD, and the video is so classic 90s it makes us genuinely well up for how much we miss being a kid.

9. Natural

S Club went a bit risqué for this one, and we remember staring shocked into our copies of Mizz as we pored over their new outfits and adult sound.

We still loved them (so, SO much) but we couldn’t help feeling a bit nervous that if they were becoming more mature, surely that meant we were too. What could the future hold?